mmm good quote
“That was, after all, the province of the child: to believe that adulthood would bring with it instant comprehension of the world and the ability to make the right choice in any given situation. Instead adulthood brought with it only the crushing realizeation that one spent one’s childhood utterly misinformed, shattering forever the childlike aspect of one’s psyche. The rest of one’s life more or less amounted to damage control.”
—Peter David
August 01, 2002 at 3:33 PM
i second that. mmm. good quote. it's amazing how i thought i'd have it all figured out by now, but, it just seems to be getting more complicated.
August 01, 2002 at 8:03 PM
fools! you will all be enslaved in the salt mines! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Therein is the cure.
August 02, 2002 at 12:14 AM
reminds me of another quote-- one of my favorites:
"... i keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, i mean-except me. and i'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. what i have to do, i have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-i mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going i have to come out from somewhere and catch them. that's all i'd do all day. i'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. i know it's crazy, but that's the only thing i'd really like to be. i know it's crazy."
just like holden, your quote speaks of how adulthood isn't so much "growing up," it's more like "falling down."
and there's nothing we can do to stop it.
August 02, 2002 at 1:27 PM
<i>...and there's nothing we can do to stop it.</i>
Except for binge drinking, you mean?
August 03, 2002 at 2:43 PM
As my dad is fond of saying, "Adults are just big kids with more responsibilities." Ain't that the truth.
August 07, 2002 at 12:30 PM
i know this thread is old, but i found an old quote in one of my favorite books that id like to share... from 'kitchen' by banana yoshimoto:
"Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that."
all of these quotes make me wonder why i didn't drop out of school and become a writer... :-)
john
August 12, 2002 at 11:13 PM
Jesus John, when did you get so deep? next thing you know, mitchell won't be on his mom's tit anymore. always expect me to be the uncouth one though, every diamond starts out as an ugly rock.